This is a completely
false and misleading
title! The vaccine
wasn't found to be
safe at all. The
article says that it
was found to cause
an increase in
Guillain Barre,
which makes the
vaccine DANGEROUS.
My mother is
completely paralyzed
from just a seasonal
flu vaccine she
received 3 1/2 years
ago. She got GBS
and had a stroke and
her neurologists
said that they saw
the same reaction on
a regular basis.
There is no warning
on the so called
information sheet
given to people
before they get the
flu shot and this
would have prevented
my mother from even
taking the shot.
Articles with false
headings like yours
only contribute to
the problem..

Dr. Jacob R. Raitt

07/14/12

Katie -- I truly am sorry about your mother, but would you remove a drug
from the market that is safe in 999,998 out of 1,000,000? That would
make no sense at all.
Rather take acetaminophen off the market. That has been shown to kill
500 people annually in the United States alone..

Dr Jeremy D Kobler DC

03/13/13

The thing that studies like this like to leave out is the simple
fact that these mothers and especially the children are not exposed
to just one vaccine, so the claim and low amount of those effected
the two out of a million affected is garbage. When our children are
exposed to over 36 vaccines by 6 years of age with many of the
vaccines having multiple doses put into one shot and if you look at
the manufacturers warning nearly if not every single one of them has
the possibility of Guillain-Barré syndrome as a side effect! Do you
not think that doesn't exponentially increase the risks of the side
effects? Obviously it is doing something or the rate of autism,
asthma, allergies, ADHD etc etc wouldn't be sky rocketing for an
unknown reason. What is the other common denominator in all of these
vaccines? Thimerosal is in all of these, the CDC, FDA and
manufacturers all know that this preservative is a huge health risk
and yet they keep it in there because it would make them look un-
trusting to the public, well probably because they are in general
not trustworthy when it comes vaccines..

Dr Jeremy D Kobler DC

03/13/13

Dr Jacob and the other point of her statement you commented on is
the fact that the vaccines are not even very effective for
preventing what they claim to prevent so to answer your question YES
they should be removed from the market until they remove the things
in it that are KNOWN to be harmful, the safety of drugs we are
prescribed is overlooked by the amount of profit that is made from
them. Plain and simple money is the only thing these companies care
about they know their products don't work half as well as they
claim, if they work at all, and they will skew the numbers as much
as needed to make them look safe or effective, one more reason they
should all be tested and researched by an UNBIASED team after the
manufacturer sends it in for FDA approval..

thixotropic

12/23/13

"During the 6-month study period, there were 83
confirmed new cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Of
those, 25 were related to receipt of the pandemic
vaccine within 8 weeks before disease onset."
So, you had to show symptoms of GBS within 8 weeks for
it to be considered vaccine-related? That the
remainder of these people developed it after the 8
week point does not mean it wasn't vaccine-related,
folks. GBS is extremely rare, normally. And vaccine-
related GBS is occurring much more often than the "1
in 1,000,000" claim; I know three people with GBS from
H1N1 vaccine: one who got it from the 1970s version
and two from the newer version. I also wonder about
the claim that "US vaccines are unadjuvanted"; AFAIK
they all contain aluminum. H1N1 was designed with
squalene as the adjuvant despite its propensity for
causing autoimmune havoc. Squalene is present in the
body naturally, but upon injection your body treats
squalene like an invader and goes after all of it,
anywhere in your body. Perhaps they simply eliminated
the adjuvant for this one vaccine, but that seems
unlikely..

thixotropic

12/23/13

Something else to remember about vaccines: &quot;efficacy&quot;
is not the same thing as &quot;effectiveness&quot;. Efficacy:
the vaccine generates antibodies. Effectiveness: the
vaccine prevents illness. They have begun to use the
terms interchangeably in direct contravention of
truth, but those numbers you're seeing are efficacy
numbers, not effectiveness numbers. For some strange
reason they don't release numbers showing how well the
vaccines protect against illness. This ought to make
any intelligent person wonder just how effective they
actually are, especially when the vast majority of
kids getting sick in pertussis and mumps outbreaks are
fully vaccinated for those diseases. Did you know the
mumps component of the MMR is 45 years old? It was
created in 1967 and has never been updated. Yet we're
using it against fast-evolving microbes. So much fraud
was committed to get that component to appear
effective on paper that Merck is the defendant in a
whistleblower suit brought by two of their own
virologists because 1) the vaccine was only tested
against the vaccine strain of mumps, which is no test
at all of how it will do against the wild virus. 2)
unsatisfactory performance numbers were simply changed
on the fly to make the vaccine appear effective. We
should have the NIH perform this work, not companies
for whom vaccines are just dollars..

AnonDoc

12/25/13

H1N1 induces a robust immune response on its own; why
use AS03, which contains squalene? Oil-based adjuvants
including squalene have been shown to cause autoimmune
disease when injected, and this antigen didn't need
that much of a boost. Oddly, nothing in the article
about narcolepsy, which saw an increase with both flu
vaccines using
AS03:http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/us-
narcolepsy-vaccine-adjuvant-idUSBRE91708V20130208.

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